Book guide
The Chelsea Girls
Broadway dreams, the Chelsea Hotel, and the Red Scare collide in a friendship built to break.
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalPolitical intrigueHistoricalWar storyHistoricalResistanceThrillerPolitical intrigueThrillerConspiracyLiteraryFound familyLiteraryBetrayalLiterarySocial commentary
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About The Chelsea Girls
In 1950s New York, playwright Hazel Ripley and actress Maxine Mead chase theatre success from the creative world of the Chelsea Hotel, but politics and suspicion threaten their ambitions and their twenty-year friendship.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Fast
Content warnings
- suicide
- domestic abuse
- war
- death
- emotional abuse
- drug use
- overdose
- physical abuse
